PARTITION by Ira Hauptman, Staged Reading

Directed by Bruce Coughran

Presented by Indra's Net Theater

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"Every whole number was his personal friend.”

Srinivasa Ramanujan said that his
mathematical discoveries were given to him in his dreams by a Hindu Goddess. Wherever they came from, they continue to astound mathematicians with their fluidity and depth today, a hundred years after his death.

This play is a fantasy based on this legendary Indian clerk who came up with mathematical theore... (more)

"Every whole number was his personal friend.”

Srinivasa Ramanujan said that his
mathematical discoveries were given to him in his dreams by a Hindu Goddess. Wherever they came from, they continue to astound mathematicians with their fluidity and depth today, a hundred years after his death.

This play is a fantasy based on this legendary Indian clerk who came up with mathematical theorems that rivaled
those of any mathematician in history. And with a little dance, and a visit from a mathematical ghost…it can’t be such a bad night. (less)